Samuel Roy Heath Jr. ’39

PROMINENT CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST, teacher, counselor, and author, Pete died May 17, 1991. Over the years Pete held positions at Knox College, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Amherst College, and Trinity College, where he was dean of students. But it was his post as assistant professor at Princeton which gave rise to his favorite longterm project. Supported by the Carnegie Foundation, he sought to measure the effects of a liberal arts education. He met individually with each of 36 undergraduate advisees from the Class of 1954 for a period of four years. From this data he produced his book The Reasonable Adventurer, describing his model of human temperament and development.

Pete gave up campus life in 1971 for private practice, but still found time to do a followup study of his Class of 1954 advisees, resulting in Princeton Retrospectives, a book published at '54's 25th reunion.

With Pete's sons Douglas and Peter '71, his sisters Dartha and Mary Elizabeth, and three grandchildren, we celebrate the life of this Reasonable Adventurer whose generosity of spirit, good humor, and enthusiasm we shall always treasure.

The Class of 1939